Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, is the largest art museum in the United States, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. The museum was opened on 13 April 1870 on 1000 Fifth Avenue, and it opened on 20 February 1872. The museum had over 2,000,000 works of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, Islamic, and Indian art, works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. In 2016, it had 7,060,000 visitors, making it the second-most visited museum in the world after the Louvre.